Description
This collections explores the immigration history, cultural traditions, identity, and contemporary experience of cultural groups throughout the state. Field research documented the experience of immigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including families of Native American, African American, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Finnish, Swedish, Franco-American German, Austrian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Jewish, Russian, Spanish, El Salvadoran, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and Yankee ancestries. This collection also includes fieldwork done with Jamaican migrant labor for the apple orchards and interviews with recent immigrants from Chile, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Ecuador done in conjunction with the Burlington Latino Festival.